Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Path: utzoo!censor!meadow!py
From: py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung)
Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drive to Compaq Deskpro 8086
Message-ID: <1991May22.145431.13178@meadow.uucp>
Reply-To: py@meadow.UUCP (Peter Yeung)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
References: <11478@hub.ucsb.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 22 May 91 14:54:31 GMT

In article <11478@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
>Here's dumb beginner question number 102748...
>
>I have an old (ancient?) Compaq Deskpro 8086 computer with a
>Seagate ST-225 20 Meg hard drive in it. I'm thinking of putting
>a Seagate ST-251-1 drive in but it suddenly dawned on me that
>I'm not sure how! I've replaced plenty of drives in AT and 386
>machines with BIOS's accessible via SETUP. How does one inform
>the Compaq 8086 of a drive's configuration? I have never had to
>deal with the Compaq's innards other than a board put in shortly
>after I got the system in 1986 or so. Thanks for tips on how to
>proceed... or if I should (or can) proceed.
>

Typical XT type controllers have dip switches for setting parameters of the
drives being used. I guess your problem is to find the dip switch setting
for the controller in your Compaq. May be you can try calling Compaq to see
if they can provide the info.

>Bill Bushing


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